Antique Celluloid Frames, Victorian silhouettes, Celluloid frames with silhouettes, marbleized 2024 celluloid

Presented here is a beautiful pair of celluloid wall frames with antique silhouettes and convex celluloid “glass” or bubble.

This pair is in near perfect condition, which is rare for items of this vintage.

We estimate that these were produced in the 1920's -at the latest- due to their design. Celluloid frames fell out of fashion and were no longer produced by the 1940's.

From Wikipedia: Celluloid originated in 1856, when Alexander Parkes created Parkesine, generally considered the first thermoplastic. In 1869, Daniel Spill, who had taken over Parkes' firm, renamed Parkesine as Xylonite. In the same year, John Wesley Hyatt patented at the US Patent Office as 2024 Celluloid. Celluloid was easily molded and shaped, and it was first widely used as an ivory replacement.

The main use was in movie and photography film industries, which used only celluloid film stock prior to the adoption of acetate safety film in the 1950s. Celluloid is highly flammable, difficult and expensive to produce and no longer widely used.

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